Hall, James Norman (Class of 1910) -- Chronology
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- 1887-1951
Hall, James Norman (Class of 1910) -- Chronology
Hall, James Norman (Class of 1910)
April 22, 1887 Born in Colfax, Iowa
1904 Graduated from high school. Visited St. Louis Exposition
1904-06 Worked in clothing store in Colfax
1906-10 Student at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
1908 Summer school at University of Chicago
1909 Summer in Scotland
1910 Graduated from Grinnell College
1910-14 Boston. Agent for Society for Prevention to Cruelty To Children. Friendship formed with Roy M. Cushman, George C. Greener, Laurence L. Winship.
May 1914 Bicycle trip through Great Britain
Aug. 18, 1914 London. Enlisted on British Expeditionary Force as Private in 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Lord Kitchener's Volunteer Army--the First Hundred Thousand)
Aug. 1914-May 1915 Army training in England. Became machine gunner.
May-Nov. 1915 Machine gunner in Normandy, France
Sept.-Oct.1915 Battle of Loos
Dec. 1, 1915 Discharged from British Expeditionary Force. Returned to U.S. Met Ellery Sedgwick, editor of Atlantic Monthly Jan.-Apr. 1916 Wrote Kitchener's Mob
Summer 1916 In London with Greener
Sept. 1916 Paris. Gathering information for articles on Lafayette Escadrille for Atlantic Monthly
Oct. 16, 1916 Paris. Enlisted in Lafayette Escadrille
Oct. 1916-June 1917 Aviation school at Buc, later at Avord.
June 14, 1917 Went to the front (near Soissans), in Squad 124
June 26, 1917 Wounded seriously in plane crash
June-Sept. 1917 American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly
Sept. 1917 Returned to action, rank of Sergeant
Sept. 1917 Crashed on Vosges mountain, broke nose
Feb. 7, 1918 Transferred to 94th (and later to 103rd) Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Air Service with rank of Captain
May 7, 1918 Shot down behind German lines near Pagny-sur-Moselle taken prisoner
May-July 15, 1918 In German hospital with broken ankle and nose J
uly 15-Nov. 16, 1918 In various prisons in Germany, the last being Schloss Trausnitz in Landshut, Bavaria
Nov.16, 1918 Allowed to "escape" from prison, train to Munich, Lindau, through Switzerland to Paris
Nov. 1918 Paris. Met Nordhoff. Both commissioned to write history of Lafayette Escadrille
Mar. 1919 Returned to U.S.
Summer 1919 Martha's Vineyard with Nordhoff. Wrote The Lafayette Flying Corps
Fall 1919 Lecture tour
Jan. 1920 Nordhoff and Hall sailed from California to Tahiti, arrived
Feb. 1920 1920-21 Voyages in South Seas on copra schooners. Nordhoff and Hall published Faery Lands of the South Seas
April 1922 Left Tahiti for U.S. and Iceland
Aug. 1922-Feb. 1923? Iceland Summer
1923 Returned to Tahiti
1925 Married Sarah Winchester
1926 Son, Conrad Hall, born
1929 Nordhoff and Hall began Mutiny on the Bounty
Aug. 1930 Nancy born in San Diego. Visits to U.S. about every two years, usually staying several months in Calif.
April 1947 Santa Barbara, Calif. Nancy's marriage to Nicholas Rutgers. Nordhoff's death.
June 1950 Grinnell College, 40th reunion, received honorary degree
July 6, 1951 Tahiti. Died of cardio-vascular ailment
Author of:
Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in Kitchener's Army. 1916
High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France. 1918
The Lafayette Flying Corps (editor with Nordhoff). 1920
Faery Lands of the South Seas (with Nordhoff). 1921
On the Stream of Travel. 1926
Mid-Pacific. 1928
Falcons of France: A Tale of Youth and the Air (with Nordhoff). 1929
Flying with Chaucer. 1930
Mother Goose Land. 1930
Mutiny on the Bounty (with Nordhoff). 1932
Men Against the Sea (with Nordhoff). 1934
Pitcairn's Island (with Nordhoff). 1934
The Tale of a Shipwreck. 1934
The Hurricane (with Nordhoff). 1936
Dark River (with Nordhoff). 1938
The Friends. 1939
Oh, Millersville! (By Fern Gravel, pseud.). 1940
No More Gas (with Nordhoff). 1940
Doctor Dogbody's Leg. 1940
Botany Bay (with Nordhoff). 1941
Men Without Country (with Nordhoff). 1942
Under A Thatched Roof. 1942
Lost Island. 1944
The High Barbaree (with Nordhoff). 1945
A Word for His Sponsor: A Narrative Poem. 1949
The Far Lands. 1950
The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas. 1952
Her Daddy's Best Ice Cream. 1952
My Island Home. 1952
Also numerous magazine pieces between 1914-52. Details of Hall's life are in his autobiography, My Island Home.
Hackler, Charles W. (Class of 1894)
1821 Born in New Hampshire
1847-ca.1853 Congregational pastor
1852 Married Julia Chapin
1854 Founded Grinnell, Iowa
1856 Active in organizing Republican Party in Iowa
1856-60 State Senator. Worked to establish public schools in Iowa
1858 Admitted to the Iowa bar
1860 Delegate to Republican convention which nominated Lincoln
1863-67 Representative (Republican) to U. S. House of Representatives
1854-84 Trustee of Iowa (Grinnell) College
1891 Death
Interests included religion, education, politics, railroading, stock breeding, and sheep raising.
More details in Dictionary of American Biography, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Who Was Who in America, Charles Payne’s Josiah Bushnell Grinnell.
Grinnell, Iowa was founded in March 1854 by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (1821-1891) who chose a site which surveys indicated would be the junction of two railroads. Grinnell was a minister, trustee and benefactor of Iowa College (later renamed Grinnell College), helped organize the Republican party in Iowa, was a Representative to the Iowa legislature and later to the U.S. House (1863), was active in agricultural development and railroad building. He and his wife, Julia Chapin, were both descended from old New England families; their daughter, Mary Grinnell Mears, may have assembled some of these papers.